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Originally Posted by FFR
I've never seen slopestyle before so I can't comment on the consistency of the judging specifically. But from listening to the commentators it sounded like the judges at the Olympics are not the same as the ones at the x-games and may have been judging differently (looking for different things). This certainly highlights the potential problems with subjective judging - but most sports have only one judging group who are all trained the same - seems rather ridiculous to have a new group of judges for the Olympics when the athletes have had the same group of judges for the rest of their competitions.
I think this just highlights the issues of a new sport - which all new events have (in one way or another).
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The issue (or non-issue) we had here was that the athletes who compete on the world tour and are never judged by FIS judges. They came in expecting what the x-games and dew tour want. Big jumps and progression, as it relates to those jumps. It was thought that the winner would have to do at minimum two triple corks, maybe three. McMorris did two, and was the only one in the final to do two in one run. When Staale saw how McMorris got scored, he changed his game plan and added more style. Sage, who has never won a gold on the world tour, just did what he does best. It's his thing to be the creative, out-there guy, and that is what the FIS judges wanted.
Maxence was last. He saw what was being judged, and he had the opportunity to change it up. He had the biggest trick, a triple cork 1620, but that was it.
If this were the x-games it could have been Canada 1-2, but it wasn't the x-games. Personally, this is one of the few times I've agreed with FIS. I liked that the rails were given some weight instead of just a lead up to the jumps.